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BATUM TO TIFLIS 77
seems to have been a regular form adopted for Armenian
and Georgian church buildings as early as the fourth or fifth
century.
Up in the dome are four narrow windows which admit a
dim light. A little light comes in also through the narrow
windows in the apses ; but it is not sufficient to illuminate
the lofty interior, wrapped in the mysterious twilight of
centuries. The stone walls of the church inside are quite
bare and simple, without any decoration, except that the
recess at the east end has some remnants of frescoes which wc
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The Church of the Holy Cross near Mtskhetha
The west end is the lower edge of the plan, and this side
is next to the precipice. (After J. Strzygowski, op. eit.)
could not see properly in the semi-darkness. On the outside
there are some stone reliefs above the windows of the apses
which show a certain amount of decorative taste. The
subject and arrangement of the figures in one of these reliefs
bears a striking resemblance to the well-known Ruthwell
Cross in Northumberland.1
One peculiarity of this church, which is a common feature
of the Armenian churches, is the base with a couple of steps
1 Strzygowski, op. eit., vol. ii, p. 719 f.
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